Word: effect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Euripides' intentions. Since his Medea was played by a husky male whose head was encased in the huge mask-apparatus, whose stature was increased by the kothornos, and whose hieratic vestments excluded any suggestion or realism, it is difficult to imagine-except in terms of Salvador Dali-the effect which you suggest...
...voters of this generation voted, in 1948, for a continuation of social security, a continuation of reclamation, TVAs, AECs, SECs and EGAs; for Government help for farmers and labor; for Government supervision of banks and business practices; for federal aid in housing and education. The people, in effect, had voted for themselves...
...Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors (which at week's end declared a year-end dividend of $2 per common share v. only 75? last year), could not see how "the results of the election will have any effect on the automobile business...
...third-quarter net of $2,058,000 was almost 74% below tax-free 1947-Divorce. A federal district court approved Howard Hughes's proposal to split RKO's picture-making organization from its theaters, create two separate companies (TIME, Nov. 8), in effect setting a pattern by which Hollywood's major companies could make their peace with antitrust (TIME, Oct. 11). RKO will sell its interest in all but 30 of its 241 partly owned theaters, and keep most of its 80 wholly owned theaters. But Hughes will sell his controlling interest in the theater company within...
...Brightness Falls," by Geoffrey Bush '51, makes as good an example as any. It is about the miserable effect as unsuccessful coming-out has on the creature who came out. Mr. Bush has a sense of character and he has a sense of narrative. But he confuses his reader far too often. He doesn't make his setting clear soon enough. He doesn't make his shifts from mood to mood easy enough to follow. And he doesn't quite manage to get across just what was wrong with the party, or with the girl, or with the girl...